INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC
SPIRITED CONTROVERSY IN MELBOURNE
AS TO IDENTITY OF THE DISEASE
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Melbourne, February 18. There have been twenty-nirio more deaths, including three in the country, making tho total to date 372. Dr. Cunipston, Federal Director of Quarantine, reviewing tho epidemic, states thai it he* been a form of fatal influenza, which has been gradually becominir more intense for months past in Australia, and may linger for many months more.—Press Assn. (Eec. February 18, 0.50 p.m.) Melbourne, February 18. Eleven more deaths .' from influenza have been reported.. ... ' , A spirited controversy has arisen over Dr. Cumpston's thesis.-that the present influenza epidemic is not the violent infective type which ravaged New Zealand and other countries. Eminent doctors, including the superintendent of the Melbourne Hospital, emphatically 'declare that the disease is identical with tho overseas type.- All post-mortems show exactly the same symptoms as those con. tained in the New Zealand Government's reports.—Press Assn.. ■ • (Eeo. February 18, 9.50 p.m.) " ' ; Sydney, February .18. There, has been.one death from influenza.—Press Assn.
TROUBLE ON ANOTHER TRANSPORT Melbourne, February 18. The troops aboard the transport Kar-mala-seized the ship and refused to alt low coal to be'put on'board, as they objected to the vessel , going to Hobart to land a few Tasmaniane before-proceed-ing to Sydney. The trouble, was settled later.—Press Assn. ■• • ■•■-.•.- ' EPIDEMIC NOTiMING IN BRITAIN HEAVY-DEATH BATE. . (Rec. February 19, 1.40 a.m.) .. .'•■..' • London, February 17. .. The influenza is ..not abating.. There were 138 deaths in Edinburgh last week, oLwhich 90 were from pneumonia. It is estimated'that the deaths-in the last quarter of 1918 totalled 175,000, largely young adults, involving an ecoinonic loss of Doctors increasingly believe that -masks afford protection.— United' Service..' ■ ■ ■ "■■' - .•■ SERIOUS SITUATIpN IN JAPAN
: OVER EIGHT MILLION' CASES. (Eec. February 18, 7,30 p.m.) ' ..;'.'......'. .-".Tokib, February -J6. Influenza., is levying heavily, on. all ranks. Over eight million .cases are reported, bind ■fifty-five thousand deaths'.— ."The Times." \ ; ". ; '.•..'
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 124, 19 February 1919, Page 7
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312INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 124, 19 February 1919, Page 7
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